Living in a hyporcrital world and realizing you are part it

Things that made me cringe today
1. 7 year old dirty little boy on subway selling pens for a peso who sat down next to a 20-something guy reading a comic so he could look over the guy's shoulder and read about Superman, at least until his 12 year old sister came along to hurry him up.
2. knowing it's not the people you miss but the way they made you feel
3. hearing "hola gata rubia" from a police officer at 10 pm
4. realizing you are not as good of a person as you thought or hoped you were
5. seeing graffiti that read CHINA PUTA in all caps as if it needed more emphasis

Things that made me smile today
1. my host dad calling me niña de fuego because i like spicy food
2. the botería guy thinking i was from Canadian because obviously Wisconsin is a province of Canada- well close enough
3. congregating a verb correctly
4. Watching Maite make ñoquis with her dad
5. giving up my seat for a vieja and then having a caballero give up his seat for me

I am often infuriated with the hypocritical nature of Argentina; it is a country with so much wealth and so much poverty, so many good intentions and so many failed dreams, so much passionate talking and so little intent listening.

But today I felt just a bit too much of my own hypocritical nature; today I felt very much a part of this flawed world I live in but am often too busy analyzing to realize I am a part of.